Tatting shuttle



Jan. 2, 1945 L, A, sl'LLlMAN 2,366,568

.TATTING SHUTTLE Filed Oct. 8, 1943 INVENTOR.

Patented Jan. 2, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TATTING SHUTTLE LouisA. Silliman, Chester, 001111., assignor to C. J. Bates & Son, Chester,Conn., a firm composed of Hamilton 0. Bates, Wells 0. Bates, andHamilton C. Bates, Jr.

I Application October 8, 1943, Serial No. 505,497

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in tatting shuttles.

The principal objects of the invention are directed to the provision ofa tatting shuttle which may be made from plastic material which is notonly light in weight but the components of the shuttle may be easily.and readily secured together to provide a unitary device.

According to special features of the invention,

' means is provided in the side plates of the shuttle Fig. 3is asectional elevational view on the line 33 of Fig.1; and

Fig. 4 is a similar view at a larger scale on the i line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawing more in detail, the invention will be fullydescribed.

The shuttle of the inventionis represented generally by 2 in thedrawing, and it includes side plates such as 4 and a central cylindricalbarrel member 6.

The parts described may be made from plastic material and be secured byany suitable cement or adhesive.

The parts may be readily formed from various kinds of plastic which maynot only be of various colors but such material is more or lessyieldable or resilient so that when adjacent ends of the plates arenormally in contact the end portions 1 of the plates yield sufilcientlyforthe passage of thread therebetween.

The barrel member 6 has an opening 8 therethrough as shown and theplates 4 may, if desired, be relatively curving or crowned as shown.

Openings or depressions I are provided in opposite sides of the shuttlewhich when the shuttle is held in the normal way between the fingers andat the same time permit rotation or oscillation of the shuttle betweenthe fingers.

These depressions may be formed by providing openings in the side platesI'll prior to securement of the said plates to the barrel 6 or they maybe formed by a drilling operation subsequent to the securement of theside plates and barrel.

In the form of the invention shown, the side plates are curving orcrowned transversely but the same will not be necessary in all cases andas statedthe side plates more particularly at their narrower endportions are yieldable so as to permit the passage of threadtherethrough when the tip ends are normally in engagement.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departingfrom the essential 6 characteristics thereof. Hence, the presentemindicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoingdescription, and all modifications and variations as fall within themeaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claim aretherefore intended to be embraced therein. a

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates is: a

As a new article of manufacture, a tatting shuttle comprising incombination, a pair of substantially identical elongated side platesformed from sheet plastic material tohave opposite sides tapering fromcentral portions to pointed opposite 'ends thereof and being curved fromsaid central of said plates in engagement, the outer faces of saidplates provided with openings and the opposite ends of the barrelprovided with depressions therebelow cooperating therewith to formsockets for receiving the tips of the fingers.

LOUIS A. SILLIMAN.

